Chernobyl expert: Fukushima is “largest delivery of radiation into the ocean ever seen” — “We still don’t know how much was released”

Ken Buesseler, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who in 1986 studied the effects of the Chernobyl disaster on the Black Sea, said the Fukushima disaster appeared to be by far the largest accidental release of radioactive material into the sea. [...]

“When we saw the numbers — hundreds of millions of becquerels — we knew this was the largest delivery of radiation into the ocean ever seen [...] We still don’t know how much was released.” -Buesseler

TOKYO, Sep 29, 2011 (IPS) – The threat of radioactive contamination faced particularly by children after the Mar. 11 nuclear disaster in Japan has touched the heart of the Japanese public, and become a major political and social issue.

Mothers are inevitably in the forefront of citizen groups working to protect children. At a meeting this week at the Ministry of Welfare, they presented an appeal that included a demand for the world’s first radiation safety standards for minors.

During a meeting with Vice-Minister for Health and Welfare Yoko Komiyama, Emiko Ito from the Fukshima- based Kodomo Zenkoku (Children Across Japan) Net called on the government to do more to protect children. “Safety standards established in nuclear power countries are currently set for adults,” she said. “It is a given fact that children are far more vulnerable to exposure.”

Paediatrician Dr Makoto Yamada from the Network to Protect Children from Radiation told IPS: “The hard truth is that radiation levels set in countries today are continuously challenged. Against such a backdrop, it is almost impossible to set a medically accepted rate for children.”

Yamada says he believes children should be protected from all levels of radiation, which is the reason he started his network. The network is comprised of doctors from across Japan who visit Fukushima voluntarily to counsel anxious parents and provide independent radiation testing.

The UN supports nuclear power. No amount of safety check will make nuclear power safe. Anything human made can and will eventually fail. This is a form of propaganda that the UN is guilty of doing. Basically it’s saying, nuclear power is so safe no accident would ever happen if new safety checks are put in place. We heard it after Chernobyl too… BS. This stuff will kill us all if it is allowed to continue operating.

“A quarter-century later, I can still measure fallout from Chernobyl in the Black Sea, though fortunately at levels that are safe for swimming, consuming seafood and, if you could remove the salt, even drinking. I never thought I’d see another release anywhere near the magnitude of Chernobyl.”
Interesting point to add! No mention of the present day land contamination concerning chernobyl in this early article … obviously didn’t want to rock the boat?

And this was a good statement in my view!……
“After 25 years, we are just beginning to grasp Chernobyl’s legacy. Now Fukushima presents similar challenges, but with the added complication of leaving its imprint on the ocean, a complex system that is vital to human health and the world economy.
Perhaps somewhere a young scientist’s career is being shaped by the events unfolding right now in Japan. I certainly hope there is more than one, because the questions we face are many, and they will not be answered soon. Or easily.”

and this was an interesting find!
“Nick Fisher of the State University of New York at Stony Brook will lead the team of researchers looking at microscopic plants and animals at the base of the food chain, as well as seaweed, fish and shellfish consumed by people, to determine how much radioactive material they accumulate.

Cleaning up the ocean sediments and other areas near shore would be “enormously expensive, and the effectiveness of such actions is very uncertain at this time,” he said. There are some cleanup methods that have been used for other pollutants in sediments, but they generally haven’t been used for contamination with radioactive materials, he said.”
Huh! did I read this, or was it my imagination?
“looking at microscopic plants and animals at the base of the food chain, as well as seaweed, fish and shellfish consumed by people, to determine how much radioactive material they accumulate.”
Duh! My head hurts! Better post this…. It might clarify things a tad!! Old chap and chapess
“The 15-day expedition on the research vessel Kaimikai-O-Kanoloa is the first major international collaboration. Scientists from the U.S., Japan and Spain will be on board, and they’ll work with scientists at labs in the U.S., Europe and Japan.”

15 days huh? What was the date they set off? Do you think they have the analysis of the biosphere?? Hmm?? Everything was ok was it? Nice!/sarc

Sept. 26: Fukushima’s nuclear disaster is a nightmare. Ghostly releases of radioactivity haunt the Japanese countryside. Lives, once safe, are now beset by an ineffable scourge promising vile illness and death.

Large sectors of the population are accumulating significant levels of internal contamination, setting the stage for a public health tragedy.

A subtle increase in the number of miscarriages and fetal deaths will be the first manifestation that something is amiss.

An elevated incidence of birth defects will begin in the Fall and continue into the indefinite future. Thyroid diseases, cardiac diseases and elevated rates of infant and childhood leukemia will follow.

I Don’t see how anyone can extrapolate that there will be
a “next decade” within which will be any civilization,
nor internet, nor electrical networks.
Whale Wars
Whale Wars
I haven’t checked up on the latest action.
I thought they were unnecessarily risky,
the Sea Shepherd and Steve Irwin crews,
in the small boat close-attack, trying to
board the Japanese ships.
How ridiculously karmic, sad for the whales as
all of us, but the Nipponese justifying their whale-kill
and eating that whale meat… Those are going to
be some of the most RAD contaminated whales ever!
scooping up krill and everything in the water.

Just because there’s going to be a next decade, doesn’t mean it’ll be a fully functioning one. Obama, NASA, FEMA and 80 other organizations are running to their underground bunkers in Denver for a “defcon 1: nuclear imminent attack drill”

KEYWORD: NUCLEAR

And what’s this operation called one might ask? Operation Mountain Guardian. AKA OMG.

This is where the elite, if and when, a cataclysmic event occurs, will dictate the New World Order.

Several other world leaders have empty schedules after today as well. Coincidence???

Sendai: Radiation levels have jumped 10-fold in days in seawater near Japan’s tsunami-hit nuclear plant, officials said, as workers battled to stabilise the crippled power station.

Drinking a half-litre (20-ounce) bottle of similarly contaminated fresh water would expose a person to their annual safe dose, said an official who however ruled out an immediate threat to aquatic life and seafood safety.

The iodine-131 level in the Pacific Ocean waters just off the Fukushima plant was 1,250 times above the legal limit — compared with readings of 126 times higher taken on Tuesday, and 145 higher on Thursday.”

To get these kinds of readings gives us a clue to how much radiation has leaked.

In 1957, I was seven years old and living in Shropshire, UK. I began to suffer from extremely sever stomach pains and cramps – so bad and so frequently that I was taken to our family doctor. After much examination, I was given the remedy – to stop drinking milk (I was a big milk drinker) except for very small amounts. The remedy worked, the pains decreased and eventually went away.

The Windsdcale accident of 1957 released radiation that spread across the UK and levels of strontium were so high that local authorities gave out iodine tablets.

Though I cannot provde it now, I do believe that I underwent a form of radiation poisoning and though the levels of radiation released by Windscale were high, they were nowhere near the levels of Fukushima…

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